From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 14:25:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA21499 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:25:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from salty.phbtsus.com (salty.phbtsus.com [192.40.29.146]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA21477 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:25:20 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611132225.OAA21477@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: by salty.phbtsus.com (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA22373; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:24:40 -0700 Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:24:40 -0700 From: Wes Peters To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help!!! Cannot get 2.2--961014-SNAP to boot! Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been trying for two days now to install this SNAPSHOT. I've tried two different disk drives, WD 1.0 and 1.0 G IDE drives, on three different systems (Gateway P5/90, Gateway 4DX2-66V, and generic 486/33). In each case, I get the OS installed via the internet from ftp.freebsd.org, but when I reboot the boot manager gives me the F? prompt and cannot boot from the hard disk. I've never had so many problems installing FreeBSD before, and have installed it on dozens of systems ranging from P166 down to 386sx-16. What gives? Am I missing something obvious? In the latest round, thinking I might be getting bitten by "oversize" IDE disks, I created 500M and 1000M FreeBSD partitions on the 1.6G drive, and installed the OS on the 500M partition. Same result -- boot easy cannot find the FreeBSD boot loader with both hands. I've searched the questions archive and didn't find anything helpful. I've never seen this failure before. Am I missing something obvious? Please reply directly here at work; my normal account takes too long to read from here. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. This is really making me crazy. I *really* *really* *hate* PCs! Wes Peters